Dear fellow GEO members, There are many exciting things to report in this member update! Last week, management disrespectfully and unilaterally cancelled a bargaining session at the last minute, and your elected bargaining team took swift action. In under nine hours, using word-of-mouth and social media, we mobilized 40 GEO members and supporters, especially undergraduate allies, to stage a sit-in and bargaining teach-in outside of … Continue reading
Click here to read the most recent bargaining update: Tell Chancellor Subbaswamy: Support Diversity with Action, not Platitudes! … Continue reading
Member Mobilization Coordinator Candidate: Avery Fürst Labor Studies GEO Bargaining team member Most of us will need to work for money (wages) in our life. Therefore, I see being active in one’s union as the most important professional development that anyone can take part in. Knowing how to stand up for ourselves, and by extension everyone else at our workplace, is paramount not only for … Continue reading
Dear GEO Members,An election for GEO officers will take place for the following positions: Steering At-Large Member (1) and Mobilization Coordinator (1).The voting location, dates, and times are below:Campus Center Concourse: Tuesday October 7 from 9-11am, Wednesday October 8 from 2:30-4:30pm, and Thursday October 9 from 2:30 to 3:30pm.Campus Center Room 911-915 from 3:30 to 4:30pmVoting will culminate at the membership meeting on Thursday October 9. The voting will … Continue reading
Dear GEO Members, GEO is a democratically-run organization. Nominations are now open for several elected GEO positions, and we need a full crew going into the semester as we continue bargaining our next contract! Please see below for nomination calls for each position, including information about each position and the nomination/election process. Any full member in good standing may nominate themselves or another member in good … Continue reading